The sjambok, that most vicious of South African whips, seems to be mounting a slow but steady comeback. In recent months, the sjambok, a bastardised name taken from the Malay cambuk, has been ...

A Mzansi man was filmed hitting another motorist with a sjambok on the road in Gauteng, sparking outrage and highlighting the dangers of road rage.

ONE hears a lot about sjamboks these days. Is this instrument a standard feature of everyday life? Where does one buy a sjambok? In a hardware shop? Or down some little lane rather like the special ...

‘We don’t want you here. We want this area clear,” says a man who hits us with a sjambok on the legs. It’s before 6am and pitch dark outside the Marabastad Home Affairs office in Pretoria. The man ...

A Pretoria east resident’s vehicle was attacked on Tuesday by a minibus taxi driver wielding a sjambok. The 67-year-old Cobus Britz said he had been making his way towards Camellia Avenue in Lynwood ...

A Western Cape police officer accused of assaulting a 13-year-old boy with a sjambok has been released on R2,000 bail. Constable Jaco Justin Oktober was released after appearing in the by Lutzville ...

The person who attacked a gardener with a sjambok (a heavy leather whip) in Cape Town must turn himself in, the Democratic Alliance said. "Reports of the violent sjambok attack of Philippi resident, ...

The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) has identified two men who were assaulted — one with a sjambok — by three police officers in Worcester, in the Western Cape. This after the ...

Groblersdal - A Limpopo trio have chosen a rather cheeky name for their band: Samboko Samanyalo. It's a Sepedi term that, when literally translated, means "the marriage sjambok". What it refers to, ...

, a Reichel-Pugh 45-footer owned by Michael Brennan of Bethesda, was the big winner of the 18th biennial Bermuda Ocean Race. almost made a clean sweep of the awards – placing first on both elapsed and ...